Quotes of: Merely Keyword

I don't love you, you know. I'm merely crazy about you.

The Girl at Cobalt Creek

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

Grendel

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

House of Cards

If he would see me again, I would die happy. In the meantime, I was merely dying.

Bird After Bird

Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...

Bark: Stories

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

Barbary Shore

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)

Buddhist Scriptures

He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

The Book of Lost Things

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Herman Hesse

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

Li Ka-shing

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

Rowan Atkinson

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

John Bates Clark

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Brian Ferneyhough

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Laura Riding

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, —that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.

1984

I smiled, and you winked. I think. Perhaps you merely blink with one eye at a time.

$3.33

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

All Things Considered

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

Her Own Rules

It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

The Human Script